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facturcrs to raise the nap of cloth. The capsule 

 consists of very sharp elastic points hooked at the 

 end, and when rows of these spiky balls arc 

 affixed to a small wooden frame they form a kind 

 of currycomb, which when drawn over the surface 

 of woollen cloth raises up a soft nap. 



TEASEL HEAD 

 (Natural size, to show bands oj florets'). 



The process has been imitated by machinery, but 

 the fuller's teasel is, I believe, still extensively used. 

 The poet Dyer alludes to this useful plant. 



' Soon the clothier's shears 

 And burler's thistle skim the surface sheen.' 



A burler is a man who pulls out the ' burls,' or 

 small knotted lumps in wool or thread. 



